ANTH-B 200 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Layered Clothing, Body Mass Index, Abo Blood Group System
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Explain in detail at least three arguments why humans cannot be classified into biological races. Provide two examples of how race can affect our biology. differs from other divisions by the frequency with which multiple hereditary traits. Scientists still cannot agree on the number of human races that exist. Some have suggested europeans (sometimes called caucasoids), asians (sometimes. Hard to find traits to separate races. Body shape, skin color, nose shape, etc. all vary gradually across space. They are dark skinned, curly to wavy hair. Africans, and other with europeans, and others with asians, some would put them. This is a gradual change in a character across the range of a species (or population). This variation cannot be non-arbitrarily divided into a limited number of classes (e. g. , black vs. If the average inuit is short, it does not mean that all inuit are short. When you map clines for multiple traits, you find that the clines disagree with each.
